{"id":230230,"date":"2025-04-29T20:41:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=230230"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:45:50","slug":"growth-super-premium-and-short-form-videos-inadequate-monetization-universal-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/growth-super-premium-and-short-form-videos-inadequate-monetization-universal-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Subscription growth, super-premium, and short-form video&#8217;s &#8216;inadequate monetization&#8217;: 7 takeaways from Universal Music Group&#8217;s Q1 2025 earnings call"},"content":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group delivered a strong start to 2025 with its Q1 earnings report today (April 29),<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Lucian Grainge, Michael Nash, and Boyd Muir dug deep into the company&#8217;s strategy and numbers on their Q1 call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130580],"class_list":["post-230230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}